Dr. Marty K. Casey
Affiliations
UnGUN Institute
Dr. Marty K. Casey is a Global Peace Ambassador, transitional trauma coach, speaker, and so much
more. Her portfolio of contributions and body of work continues to evolve, as she combines her
passion for the ARTS with her compassion for her community!
Dr. Casey has built a fulfilling and impactful career that traverses entertainment and community
service, an anointed singer, gifted actress, writer, producer, and director. No matter what hat she is
wearing her noteworthy goal is pointed–
“to heal our community, to provide a response and outlet for inbred trauma.”
Dr. Casey asserts “Hurt people hurt people. Healed people heal people.” She has set out to support
individuals, families, and communities heal with her latest development of UnGUN Institute©,
focused on disarming Trauma in individuals, to heal from collective trauma events which plague the
black communities.
For many years now, Dr. Casey has leveraged her passion for Art, combined it with her compassion
for Activism and in 2014 created Show Me Arts Academy, serving as the founder and Artistic Director
positively impacting the lives of more than 3,000 kids, using the Arts to Heal.
After more than three decades as a performing artist on major global stages, Marty K. Casey has
transformed her craft beyond the world of entertainment to show the restorative power of the arts
to heal hurting people. In 2020, just days before a forced lock down caused by a global pandemic, Dr.
Marty performed her one-woman show in the Big Apple for the largest non-profit nation-wide, AARP
New York. Dr. Marty brilliantly used the story of her own trauma-ridden life to give hope to a sold-out
crowd. This performance shined the light on arts efficacy as a tool for mitigating trauma impact.
Following her New York show, the close of theatres throughout the world brought an abrupt halt to
Dr. Marty’s live performances, a pivotal moment that prompted Dr. Marty to relaunch her artistic
focus to address a more pressing societal need: trauma impact resolution.
Toward this end, Dr. Marty has leveraged the ARTS for therapeutic purposes, and in 2020, she
founded UnGUN® Institute, where the display of synergy between applied arts and trauma healing
could be maximized and experienced by the masses. In the span of just two years, Dr. Marty K. Casey
and her Team have presented UnGUN® workshops for organizations such as Preferred Family
Healthcare (St. Louis, MO); St. Louis Public Schools (St. Louis, MO); Blessed are the Peace Makers and
National Black Police Association (Dallas, TX); The Peace Center (Bathe, Maine); St. Louis Service
Women’s Post 404 (St. Louis, MO), indigoLife International Women’s Empowerment & Cultural Expo
(Cordele, GA); and Ark of Safety Church (St. Charles, MO). To date, nearly 10,000 people have been
positively impacted by UnGUN® methodology and strategies. An ode to her entertainment roots and
with expected impact on the entertainment industry, UnGUN® products have been numerously
featured inside the Gifting Suites of the Oscars and the Emmy Awards.
Her message of healing and now her trademarked UnGUN Institute, ® approach for mitigating the
impact of trauma have landed Dr. Marty on stages beyond the theatre to broader spaces that include
government, education, business, healthcare, and community-based sectors. She has represented
UnGUN Institute® as a featured presenter for the Parliament of the World’s Religion Global
Conference; World Unity Week; World Peace Week; Alex Haley Museum; American Voice
Foundation; General Congress of Women; African American Museum; Chosen for Change
Foundation; The Michael O.D. Brown Foundation; and Shoot for the Stars Foundation (Hip Hop Artist
Pop Smoke Memorial Foundation) to name a few. Dr. Marty is slated to serve as Keynote Speaker for
Urban Expo Save Our Sisters Women's Empowerment Summit and workshop facilitator for the
Accounting Career Awareness Program, sponsored by the National Association of Black Accountants
Association St. Louis and Wells Fargo.
Featured on the cover of the St. Louis Business Journal, Dr. Marty is lauded as one of the Top 25 Most
Influential Businesswomen in St. Louis. In 2021, she received the Presidential Lifetime Achievement
Award signed by President Joseph R. Biden. Dr. Marty actively serves on the Grants Council for
PurposeEarth.com in alignment with her mission to heal communities through the empowerment of
recovery through expressive arts.
Globally recognized as a transformational trauma coach, Dr. Marty K. Casey remains committed to
equipping as many people possible with strategies, tools, and techniques for eradicating harmful
responses to trauma that wreak havoc on families, communities, and the world, at large.